San pa po meron nito besides Waltermart? ive been to glorietta area, and all ive seen are vcds priced at 195.
Saw two copies earlier at Astroplus Podium
As for the DVD itself I am very happy with this purchase. I am one of the few people who watched it as a kid in 1980 when it first came out and have some fond memories of it.
But this is NOT the movie that came out in 1980 (that surprisingly shows up in the top ten lists of best WWII movies ever made like those in Premiere and EW mags), instead it is a RECONSTRUCTION (or approximation) of what the writer/director might have wanted to do originally.
Critically acclaimed film director Samuel Fuller spent decades developing his dream project about his experiences in the Army's First Infantry Division during World War II, but it wasn't until 1979 that he was able to finally bring the picture before the cameras. Unfortunately, Fuller was forced by his producers to work with a scaled-down budget, and he did not have final cut on the film; after his first rough cut ran nearly four-and-a-half hours, Lorimar studios took over editing on the project, and Fuller was vocally unhappy with the final results.
Working with Fuller’s script and notes and surviving footage,Richard Schickel (the "Time" magazine film critic) in 2003 assembled a version that’s 45 minutes longer and considerably richer. The 113-minute theatrical version has now been expanded to 158 minutes.
For you movie film fans you will notice a lot of similarities between the the D-Day landing scenes in this movie and those of Saving Private Ryan. Steven Spielberg even acknowledged this movie as one of his inspirations.
The sound is much improved (i recommend you watch the restoration documentary to see how improved) and the digitally cleaned up picture is much better than how i remembered it.
Disc 2 is loaded with interesting bonus features:
- The Real Glory: Reconstructing "The Big Red One" (47 min.) This contains not only details of the restoration and reconstruction, but an old interview with Fuller and recent interviews with half a dozen of the actors who were young when they made the movie.
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (55 min.) a 55-minute Turner Classic Movies documentary on the career of filmmaker Samuel Fuller
- Anatomy of a Scene (6 segments totaling 18 min.)
- Alternate Scenes (18 scenes totaling 32 min.) With commentary by Bryan McKenzie, the film editor for the reconstructed version, and Brian Hamblin, post-production supervisor.
- War Department Film: "The Fighting First" (12 min.)
- 1980 Promo Reel (30 min.)the recently discovered promo materials from which most of the new footage in the reconstruction was taken
- Theatrical Trailers (3)
- Stills Gallery
- Radio Spots (2)
